Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-17
NEWS ALL SORTS.

1uartz VEINS INC uiSpdlCH edS = haNo
nj been discovered in the Transyaal
Africa gold-felds.
There is prospect that the Illinois
legislature will adopt resolution to sub
NIT the question of PROHIBITING the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
beverages to popular vote.
The value of cotton exports during
February past WAS $lS,744, 246, against
an 2Ol 6S1 in February, 1856. For the
.ix months ended Feb. %, 1877, the value
of cotton exports amounted to $158,3I1,-
-S6. against $151, 1927 ,203 during the six
months ending Feb. 2S, 1856.
The Welland canals will be opened May
for vessels drawing twelve feet.
The -four output at Minneapolis last
n week was 1900 barrels, against S4,040
barrels the previous week. The market
shows moro strength, and better prices
are being obtained.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has been married to
Count Miranda, and will retire from the
lyric stage.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADs, the famous
civil engineer, died Tuesday at Mass au
the capital of the Bahama Islands.
THE Minnesota legislature, in a sixty
DAYS session, introduced seventeen hun
bred bills and passed enough of them to
appropriate nearly two millions of dollars
THE president on Thursday appointed
Charlton n. Way, of Georgia, to be con
sui general of the United States at st.
Petersburg.
UNITED STATES r evenue Collector VIM
Il c. Thompson, of the second Iowa district
died Wednesday morning at Davenport,
Of Brght's disease. He had suffered a
long illness.
Louis Reiviel, the would be assassin of
Beattie, surveyor OF the port of New
York, he having attempted to shoot
Beattie, in the custom house, LAT Octo-
ber has been sentenced to five Years in
the state prison.
The admiralty has trustworthy infor-
nation that the draftinCs and papers CON
uected with the British navy design 5
which we're sold by Craftsman Terry and
N which England charged had been secured
n by the United States government by un-
h fair means, are in the possession of the
n Russian government.
B BROKEN wheel threw two passenger
coaches containing thirty passengers
from the track near Girard, d., Friday.
Two passengers were fatally, and five
others, among them State Senator Il. @
Soutswerth, of Litchfield, ILL.,, were ser
Iously injured.
The continued cruelties by the author
tiles in Bulgaria will soon make condi-
ton Of things which will enable Russia to
take possession of the country. The
Cars government is better than none.
The firm of Armour Co, have decid-
ed not to build the cotton seed oil mills
IN the soath as has been announced. It is
animated that the firm has arranged with
cotton seed oil syndicate to furnish
them with oil at contract prices which
result was accomplished owing TO the
threat to build opposition mills.
IT has been demonstrated that planti-
mum wire nay be drawn so fine as to be
Invisible to the naked eye, although its
presence upon perfectly white card can
be detected by the touch, and can be seen
by the aid of small magnifying glass
when the card is held in such p position
that the wire casts a shadow.
q CURIOUS geological phenomenon ex-
u lists in the vicinity of Behring's strait.
Y Al Elephant Point, Kotzbue Sound, q
a ridge, 2 miles wide and 250 TT. high seems
81 to be vast mass of ice, thiny covered
u with clay and vegetable mold In this
a SOL birches alders Snd berry bearing
u plants grow iuKuriantly, with the stratum
Y OF perpetual ice as the underlying rock
Y within less than foot from their roots.
II Is said very Important new depart
& IRE has been made in the paper mauufac-
.aIe' by the erection of works in the
Il helghb0rhood of London for the utiliza-
ion LOT that purpose stable manure. etc.
q iAe results obtained IN this process aresaid
Il 70 he so satisfactory that, after due.pro-
vision mas been made for the value of the
chemical products of the materials en-
d P'o!ed' the cost of producing the paper
next to nothing.
VSf OF the largest seins in the world is
inc one IN use near Gloucester Point n
w. III Is mile and quarter long, and
n @eh year netoird of it has to be renew
IA 3D. me w7rk being done in Baltimore. 1t
n 1Seu In catching shad, and at the open
's OF each season thousands of peonle
81 s''"FL 10 witness the haul. Old fisher
n neileVe that shad will be running
10y b! the beginning of April They
'"'e 'nat all the signs point to an
ge''! spring. The first Delaware shad
""S 'eeenty captured at Bayside, where
u sold for 75 cents.
h A NEW YORK statement CT the canal
n Des,ne's says; "Of 76,371237 bushels Of
sl''n received at this port last year. from
bri 20 November inclusive, 1859. 355
n-'nei' were brought through the canals.
ing 'he same period for the past three
$40 me canals brought no, 800 45s bush
ou' ~ total of 206, $40, 233 bushels.
h 'he decrease in the amount of
7.ss N brought to the city by rail during
-,.,,, uuuer what was carried by the same
.sau' IN 1885, is 1862. 7ss bushels and
d '.'ef and coastwise l,725.6l7 bushels.
II W.. 'J,a a.' carried by canals during 1856
n tiVos576 bushels in excess of the
n s"''se OF the previous year"
n 81. WIRE rope used in coal mine near
n ga. ''oarg Pa, is 1000 feet long. In
"a ..,, mine IN the same vicinity. where
II -s.5 'al oips about feet to the 100
N a. ''e coal is hauled out and mn on
u upple with wire rope $500 feet
q ID, The empty trips being drawn
n lone y .ns gathering point with a tail.
N Ropes Of this length ara ~. ,.e.,,,